Note(s): Taken from CD entitled: “Remembering the Navy Hour.” Featuring the Navy Band and Sea Chanters. Recorded by Sheffield Recording, Ltd., Inc. at the George Mason University Center for the Arts Concert Hall.

Credit: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress.

This Composition is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 “COPYRIGHT BASICS” from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain.

This composition is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris) in this case Katharine Lee Bates (words), (August 12, 1859 â March 28, 1929), Samuel Augustus Ward (tune) (28 December 1847 â 28 September 1903), and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from December 31 of that date.

This media file is a work of a U.S. Department of Defense employee, made during the course of the person’s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the media file is in the public domain.

Generally speaking, works created by U.S. Government employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the United States. See Circular 1 “COPYRIGHT BASICS” from the U.S. Copyright Office.

But that’s not true, we disputed it about 3 hours ago, not 30 days ago. We still have not heard back from RumbleFish or the Navy, if we do, we’ll update the post here.

Update 2: 4:07pm 7/3/2015, RumbleFish posted a comment on this post.

YouTube’s Content ID system automatically makes claims on videos when the audio matches a recording we represent. In this case, we work with a label who promotes this music outside of the U.S. Once it was confirmed that this was a legal, patriotic, celebratory U.S. usage, the claim was immediately released. At no point was the video taken down, and neither Rumblefish nor its provider labels collect money from public domain songs here in the States.

Perfect timing to note that America IS beautiful and we wish everyone a happy Independence weekend.

Sincerely, Rumblefish

Are they saying someone outside the USA owns “America the Beautiful” by United States Navy Band? We asked via email and via Twitter and of course they’re not replying, we’ll keep asking. Happy 4th.

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YouTube’s Content ID system automatically makes claims on videos when the audio matches a recording we represent. In this case, we work with a label who promotes this music outside of the U.S. Once it was confirmed that this was a legal, patriotic, celebratory U.S. usage, the claim was immediately released. At no point was the video taken down, and neither Rumblefish nor its provider labels collect money from public domain songs here in the States.

Perfect timing to note that America IS beautiful and we wish everyone a happy Independence weekend.

This is a flaw in just matching audio snippets… Rumblefish could justifiably incorporate that recording into their own copyrighted work, and most likely the content ID system would not distinguish between the portions of their work that they owned vs those they didn’t.

It is pretty crazy that Youtube automatically flags videos like that… even for videos that aren’t selling ads (which you guys, don’t right?)… so what kind of damages would they even sue you for if you were infringing?